YOUNG LAWYER RESOURCES
The ABA YLD has resources about young lawyers and the legal profession that are readily available. Resources will continue to be added have been organized into the following categories. (Click on the category to view the listing.)
LAW FIRMS
- Law-Firm Life Doesn’t Suit Some Young Associates — by Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal Online
- New Reality — Aric Press, The American Lawyer, August 1, 2007
- Survival Tips for Summer Associates Entering the Real World of Law Firms - The Snark, Fulton County Daily Report, October 4, 2007
- Keeping the Keepers II: Mobility and Management of Associates — National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
- The Lateral Lawyer:
Why They Leave & What May Make Them Stay — NALP
- Ad Hoc Committee on Billable Hours — by ABA Section of
Business Law, 2001-2002
- Billable Hours Requirements at Law Firms — NALP Bulletin, May 2006
- The Billable Hour Must Die — by Scott Turow, ABA Journal, August 2007
- Resources on Effectively Changing the Framework of Law Firm — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
- AJD Findings on Race-Ethnicity — by Gita Wilder, January 2008 Bulletin
- Although Most Firms Collect GLBT Lawyer Information, Overall Numbers Remain Low — by Judith Collins (along with sidebar commentary by Andrew Chapin), December 2007 Bulletin
- Few Lawyers Work Part-Time, Most Who Do Are Women — December 5, 2007 Press Release
- Minority Women Still Underrepresented in Law Firm Partnership Ranks - Change in Diversity of Law Firm Leadership Very Slow Overall — November 1, 2007 Press Release
- Bridging the Divide in Client Relations: Closing the Generation Gap — by Julia Hayhoe and Richard S. Cohen, Law Practice Magazine, June 2006 Issue; Volume 32, Number 4; Page 35
- Resources on Mentoring and Preparing for the Profession — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
- The Young and the Restless: Understanding Generational Differences in Today’s Law Firms — by Virginia Grant and Marci M. Krufka, Report to Legal Management, July 2003
- Associates Giving Up On Partnership — by Marie Beaudette, Legal Times, September 30, 2003
- Navigating the Bridges to Partnership -- A New Research Report from the NALP Foundation — by Paula A. Patton, December 2007 Bulletin
- Partnership Tiers and Tracks — NALP Bulletin, February 2002
- Veil of Tiers — by Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer, June 29, 2004
- What Being a Nonequity Partner Means: From Lifestyle to Leadership Choices — by Robert W. Denney, Law Practice Magazine, September 1997
LAW SCHOOL & LEGAL EDUCTION
- Law School Debt Among New Lawyer— An After the JD Monograph — by Gita Z. Wilder, NALP, 2007
- Law School Survey of Student Engagement — by Thomas Adcock, New York Law Journal, May 2, 2005
- Legal Education Economics 101: A Primer for Bar Examiners — by Joseph D. Harbaugh, The Bar Examiner, November 2001
- Lifting the Burden — Law Student Debt as a Barrier to Public Service — Final Report on the ABA Commission On Loan Repayment And Forgiveness, 2001—2003
- Resources on Preparing for Transitioning into the Profession — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
- Student Debt Crisis: Lawmakers Take Action —
by Craig Linder, Student Lawyer Magazine, September 2007; Volume 36, Number 1
- The Legal Profession and Public Service — The National Legal Center for the Public Interest — by Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, September 12, 2000
LEGAL CAREER SURVEYS
- An Empirical Study of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, and the Effects of Billable Hour Requirements (Part One) — by Susan Saab Fortney, Texas Bar Journal, December 2001
- An Empirical Study of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, and the Effects of Billable Hour Requirements (Part Two) — by Susan Saab Fortney, Texas Bar Journal, January 2002
- Career Satisfaction Among
Young Lawyers — ABA Young Lawyers Division Survey, 2000
- First Results of a National Study of Legal
Careers an — An After the JD Monograph — NALP Foundation, 2004
- How Much Do Law Firms Pay New Associates? — By Judith Collins and Andrew Chapin, October 2007 Bulletin
- Law Firm Leverage Drops to Levels Last Seen 10 Years Ago — December 18, 2007 Press Release
- Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Professional Fulfillment — Expectations, Reality and Recommendations for Change — Boston Bar Association, January 2007
- Salaries for New Lawyers: How Did We Get Here? — by Judith Collins, January 2008 Bulletin
WORK / LIFE BALANCE
- Facing the Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work / Family Imbalance — Boston Bar Association, January 2007
- Finding the Proper Work-Life Balance in the Practice of Law — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
- Resources on Career Strategies — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
